Why is windows 10 ending so early?

[Neostarwcc]

Okay so, Microsoft has stated that Windows 10 is going to be the last operating system they're going to be working on. Part of their marketing campaign is that our children are going to grow up on Windows 10 ...etc. That gives off and gave off the aura to me personally that, they were going to continue to provide updates for a long, long time for Windows 10. Support that carried on for at LEAST 30 years. And then, I see the update discontinued date. October 13th 2020. So, in a little over 4 years from now, 5 years after release date, Microsoft will no longer provide updates for Windows 10? How is this supposed to carry onto the lives of our children? What? Are we supposed to use an unsupported and unupdated OS for the rest of our lives? Or all programs are going to be Linux? Assuming... Linux even continues to exist 30 years in the future as well... but, linux seems to be the operating system that our children will grow up on.

So, why is it a big deal that they continue to provide updates? Cyber Security. If they stop making updates there are so many security threats, hacking threats, ...etc that will be possible if Microsoft no longer updates the operating system. That's why they made so many security updates for Windows XP,7 ...etc. And why they tell people "If you get hacked using an older OS It's your problem."

So... obviously Microsoft is aware of this. Microsoft holds a majority of the OS market, why in 4 and a half years should they force PC users to use a different OS when many, many PC users and enthusiasts (Myself included) grew up with Microsoft Operating Systems. I've been using Microsoft OS'S since Windows 3.1.

I mean, I'm fine that It's the last OS that Microsoft wants to work on. But, for the sake of Cyber security and everything else, shouldn't they provide security updates for much, much longer than just 4 and a half years?

 

[Colif]

Extended support ends on October 14, 2025 so its not exactly the end, very few people actually believed this would be the last windows... and that web site date might be changed in the next 5 years.

I think it will be around long enough so that a majority of people are using the one OS and it makes it easier to support. They running a SAAS (Software as a Service) model, they can extend its life for as long as they want to since new versions come out every few months. One day Microsoft may find they need a new partition scheme that can write to partitions bigger than 256tb, that could force their hand into a new os... I can remember when 50 mb hdd seemed so large it would never get used.

the link in question: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/lifecycle

 

[CountMike]

Every new large upgrade will bring new expiry date, a way for MS to make sure all systems are updated regularly.